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Eliminating Monitor Overuse Trial (EMO Trial)

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Bronchiolitis Acute Viral
Interventions
Behavioral: Educational Outreach
Behavioral: Audit & Feedback (unit level)
Behavioral: Audit & Feedback (real time, individual-level)
Behavioral: Clinical Pathway Integrated into Electronic Health Record
Registration Number
NCT05132322
Lead Sponsor
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify the optimal deimplementation strategies for an overused practice: continuous pulse oximetry monitoring of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis who are not receiving supplemental oxygen.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
32357
Inclusion Criteria
  • Nurse or physician fluent in English and employed full-time by the hospital, affiliated practice, or affiliated university who cared for bronchiolitis patients on a unit participating in the trial during at least 5 days of the most recent bronchiolitis season
  • Hospital administrator fluent in English who oversaw the care of bronchiolitis on a local level (e.g. nurse manager) or a hospital level (e.g. Chief Quality and Safety Officer)
Exclusion Criteria

• Under the direct supervision of study or site principal investigator(s)

Population 1b: Hospital staff who participate in qualitative interviews

In Aim 2, we will conduct semi-structured interviews with physicians and nurses who provide care to bronchiolitis patients in participating units at the 5 hospitals with the highest and 3 hospitals with the lowest sustainability (8 hospitals total; up to maximum of 8 interviews/hospital). Maximum anticipated enrollment 64.

Inclusion criteria:

  • Nurses or Physicians who cared for bronchiolitis patients on a unit participating in the trial during at least 5 days of the most recent bronchiolitis season
  • Employed full-time by the hospital, affiliated practice, or affiliated university
  • Fluent in English

Exclusion criteria:

• No exclusion criteria

Population 2a: Bronchiolitis patients directly observed while not receiving supplemental oxygen ("in room air," for primary trial outcome)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Infants and children 2 months through 23 months old
  • Hospitalized on non-ICU wards participating in the trial
  • Cared for by generalist inpatient services (e.g. general pediatrics, hospital medicine)
  • Primary diagnosis of bronchiolitis in most recent physician progress note
  • Not actively receiving supplemental oxygen ("in room air")
  • Last documented receipt of supplemental oxygen >1 hour prior to direct observational data collection

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Documented apnea or cyanosis during the current illness
  • Extreme prematurity (<28 weeks completed gestation)
  • Cardiac disease
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Chronic lung disease
  • Home oxygen requirement
  • Neuromuscular disease
  • Immunodeficiency
  • Cancer
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (Covid-19 / SARS-CoV-2)-related illness (known or suspected, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)

Population 2b: Bronchiolitis patients directly observed while receiving supplemental oxygen (for underuse evaluation).

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Infants and children 2 months through 23 months old
  • Hospitalized on non-ICU wards participating in the trial
  • Cared for by generalist inpatient services (e.g. general pediatrics, hospital medicine)
  • Primary diagnosis of bronchiolitis in most recent physician progress note
  • Actively receiving ≥2 Liters/minute (2L/min) supplemental oxygen or 21% room air flow

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Extreme prematurity (<28 weeks completed gestation)
  • Cardiac disease
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Chronic lung disease
  • Home oxygen requirement
  • Neuromuscular disease
  • Immunodeficiency
  • Cancer
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 [Covid-19 / SARS-CoV-2 (known or suspected)]

Population 3: Parents or guardians of bronchiolitis patients who participate in qualitative interviews.

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Their child was hospitalized for bronchiolitis on a unit participating in the trial during the most recent bronchiolitis season
  • Their child was found to be in room air during Aim 1 data collection
  • Fluent in English

Exclusion criteria:

• They are an employee of the hospital or a hospital volunteer

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Unlearning OnlyEducational OutreachIncludes educational outreach and audit \& feedback.
Unlearning OnlyAudit & Feedback (real time, individual-level)Includes educational outreach and audit \& feedback.
Unlearning + SubstitutionAudit & Feedback (unit level)Includes educational outreach, audit \& feedback, and an electronic health record-integrated clinical pathway to support appropriate use of pulse oximetry.
Unlearning OnlyAudit & Feedback (unit level)Includes educational outreach and audit \& feedback.
Unlearning + SubstitutionEducational OutreachIncludes educational outreach, audit \& feedback, and an electronic health record-integrated clinical pathway to support appropriate use of pulse oximetry.
Unlearning + SubstitutionClinical Pathway Integrated into Electronic Health RecordIncludes educational outreach, audit \& feedback, and an electronic health record-integrated clinical pathway to support appropriate use of pulse oximetry.
Unlearning + SubstitutionAudit & Feedback (real time, individual-level)Includes educational outreach, audit \& feedback, and an electronic health record-integrated clinical pathway to support appropriate use of pulse oximetry.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sustainability of guideline-concordant deimplementation of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring3 years

Sustainability of guideline-concordant deimplementation of continuous pulse oximetry (SpO2) monitoring is the primary trial outcome. It is calculated based on penetration (outcome 2). Sustainability will be measured longitudinally based on calculating the differences in the penetration of guideline-concordant practice at baseline, compared to the penetration during the sustainability phase.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cost of deimplementation strategiesUp to 3 years

Cost of delivering each of the strategies will be assessed using a pragmatic Time-Driven Activity Based Costing method developed specifically for economic analysis of implementation strategies.

PenetrationUp to 4 years

Penetration is calculated as the percentage of bronchiolitis patients who are in room air (not receiving any supplemental oxygen) and are receiving guideline-concordant care (this means they are not being continuously SpO2-monitored). The continuous monitoring status is determined using direct observation on hospital units.

Acceptability of deimplementationUp to 3 years

Acceptability of deimplementation among staff measured by questionnaire. Items are adapted from the validated Acceptability of Implementation Measure (AIM) and are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 indicating "Completely disagree" and 5 indicating "Completely agree." Higher scores indicate better acceptability. The items are analyzed individually and not summed to a total score.

Perceived safety of deimplementationUp to 3 years

Perceived safety of deimplementation among staff measured by questionnaire. Items are adapted from those used in the pilot study preceding this trial and are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 indicating "Completely disagree" and 5 indicating "Completely agree." Higher scores indicate better agreement with each question.

Feasibility of deimplementationUp to 3 years

Feasibility of deimplementation among staff measured by questionnaire. Items are adapted from the validated Feasibility of Implementation Measure (FIM) and are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 indicating "Completely disagree" and 5 indicating "Completely agree." Higher scores indicate better feasibility. The items are analyzed individually and not summed to a total score.

Appropriateness of deimplementationUp to 3 years

Appropriateness of deimplementation among staff measured by questionnaire. Items are adapted from the validated Implementation Appropriateness Measure (IAM) and are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 indicating "Completely disagree" and 5 indicating "Completely agree." Higher scores indicate better appropriateness. The items are analyzed individually and not summed to a total score.

Length of Hospital StayUp to 4 years

The length of hospital stay is the duration of time that elapses between the time a patient is admitted with bronchiolitis to an inpatient unit of the hospital until the time they are discharged from the hospital, using data manually abstracted from the electronic health record chart.

Duration of Oxygen SupplementationUp to 4 years

The oxygen supplementation duration is the total duration of time during which a patient is documented as receiving supplemental oxygen during hospitalization.

Trial Locations

Locations (58)

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Tufts Medical Center

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston Children's Hospital

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

CHOP Pediatric Care at Penn Medicine/Princeton Health

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Princeton, New Jersey, United States

University of Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands

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The Woodlands, Texas, United States

Children's Memorial Hermann

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Houston, Texas, United States

Texas Children's Hospital

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Houston, Texas, United States

Seattle Children's Hospital

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Seattle, Washington, United States

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

University of California Davis

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Davis, California, United States

Rady Children's Hospital/UCSD

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Encinitas, California, United States

Valley Children's Hospital

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Madera, California, United States

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

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Stanford, California, United States

Children's Hospital Orange County

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Orange, California, United States

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

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Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health

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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Northwestern University

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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Children's Mercy Kansas City

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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Albany Medical Center

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Albany, New York, United States

Children's Hospital at Montefiore

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Bronx, New York, United States

Cohen Children's Medical Center

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New Hyde Park, New York, United States

University of Rochester Golisano Children's Hospital

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Rochester, New York, United States

NYP-Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital

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New York, New York, United States

Komansky Children's Hospital/New York Presbyterian Medical Center /Weill Cornell Medicine

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New York, New York, United States

Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital

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Syracuse, New York, United States

Akron Children's Hospital

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Akron, Ohio, United States

Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital

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Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Nationwide Children's Hospital

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Columbus, Ohio, United States

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

CHOP King of Prussia Hospital

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King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Reading Hospital, Tower Health

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Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

CHOP Grand View Hospital

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Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States

Children's Medical Center Dallas

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Dallas, Texas, United States

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus

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Houston, Texas, United States

Utah Valley Hospital

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Provo, Utah, United States

Riverton Hospital

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Riverton, Utah, United States

Inova Children's Hospital

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Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters

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Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU

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Richmond, Virginia, United States

Hoops Family Children's Hospital at Marshall University

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Huntington, West Virginia, United States

Alberta Children's Hospital

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Calgary, Canada

Children's Minnesota

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Children's National Medical Center

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Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

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Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Banner University Medical Center- Diamond Children's

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Tucson, Arizona, United States

Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

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New Haven, Connecticut, United States

CS Mott Children's Hospital

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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

CHOP Care Network at Virtua

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Voorhees, New Jersey, United States

University of Vermont Children's Hospital

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Burlington, Vermont, United States

Children's of Alabama

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Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Children's Hospital at Oklahoma University Medical Center

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Primary Children's Hospital

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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Children's Hospital Colorado

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Aurora, Colorado, United States

Children's Wisconsin

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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